Male Escort Says He Could Hear Sean “Diddy” Combs Assaulting Cassie
When Cassie Ventura didn’t join Sean “Diddy” Combs right when he called for her on one occasion, Daniel Phillip testified, Combs threw a liquor bottle in her direction, then grabbed her by her hair and dragged her into the bedroom. “She was screaming,” Phillip said, and, from the next room, ”what I heard sounded like him slapping her.” Phillip said he heard Combs say, “’I tell you to come here, you come here now, not later.’”
Phillip said he was “terrified” and did not intervene.
He further testified that he overheard what sounded like Combs assaulting Cassie on a separate occasion at the Essex House hotel in New York. “I heard her yelling, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry,’ someone was being slapped around and slammed around the room,” Phillip said. “And I looked around the corner and I saw Mr. Combs walk out of the hotel altogether without clothes, he might have had a towel on.”
Cassie came out of the room and jumped into Phillip’s lap, he testified. “She basically tried to convince me that ‘it’s OK’ and ‘I’ll be OK,’” Phillip continued. “And I said, ‘It is not OK and you need to get help.’”
“I tried to explain to her that she was in real danger if she stayed with him,” Phillip said.
Asked by prosecutor Maureen Comey why he didn’t call the police, Phillip testified that he thought of Combs as “someone with unlimited power, and chances are, even if I did go to the police, that I might still end up losing my life.”
